Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "developer" []

  • One that develops: a developer of hidden talent. (noun)
  • A person who develops real estate, epecially by preparing a site for residential or commercial use. (noun)
  • A chemical used to render visible the image recorded on a photosensitive surface. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "developer" in a sentence
  • "Searches with the term developer and every imaginable iteration of it are much more likely to return results on MSDN than searches with the term program or code."
  • "For too long, the term developer has been overloaded in the Web agency world."
  • "But if the developer is also up to no good then yeah, it just makes the whole point moot."